Fox
Oscar Nominations: 2
Supporting Actor: Ian Bannen
Film Editing: Michael Luciano
Oscar Awards: None
Supporting Actor Bannen
Ian Bannen, a Scottish actor, was nominated for the Supporting Actor for “Flight of the Phoenix,” Robert Aldrich's popular adventure film about an airplane crash in the Arabian deserts. Bannen played a cynical oil-field worker in an all-star cast that included Jimmy Stewart as the pilot, Peter Finch, Richard Attenborough, George Kennedy, and others.
Ironically, the stunt pilot Paul Mantz was killed in a crash during the shooting of the picture.
Oscar Context
In 1965, the winner of the Supporting Actor Oscar was Martin Balsam for the comedy, “A Thousand Clowns.” The other nominees were Tom Courtenay in “Doctor Zhivago,” Michael Dunn in “Ship of Fools,” and Frank Finlay in “Othello.”
The editing Oscar went to William Reynolds for “The Sound of Music,” in a year in which the other nominees were: Charles Nelson for “Cat Ballou,” Norman Savage for “Doctor Zhivago,” and Ralph E. Winters for “The Great Race.”
